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OLD YORKTOWN AND ITS HISTORY
or to their Allies until duly exchanged-I do further promise
that whenever required by the Commander in Chief of the Ameri-
can Army, or the Commissary of Prisoners for the same, I will
repair to such place or places as they or either of them may re-
quire---
Given under mv Hand at Yorktown 28th: day of October
1781---
CORN WALLIS---
The Headquarters of General Washington, located on the Jones
farm in York County, were burned several years ago. On this
farm is an old Mulberrv tree under which the General had his
tent, and it was in that tent the Articles of Capitulations were
signed after having been drawn up at the Moore House on Temple
Farm. There is also on this farm a Holly tree under which was
placed the cannon from which the first shot was fired on the
British at Yorktown. There are also several graves of French
soldiers, who gave their lives for American Freedom; these graves
will be fixed up and marked by the Compte de Grasse Chapter
of the D. A. R., Yorktown, Virginia.
At the time of the Revolutionary War Yorktown boasted
3,600 inhabitants. Now there are scarcely 300, of which only
about 125 are white.
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